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Air ambulance services: Find an air ambulance company or air medical transport

Published: March, 2007

BOSTON — The need for emergency medical air transport is not always a matter of an exotic trip gone awry. Many families want to move a relative from a distant hospital or facility to one closer to where they live. For these and other reasons, the demand for air ambulance service is growing fast, reports the March 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.

Some commercial airlines reserve space for a stretcher and medical personnel in the back of the cabin, but many are no longer providing that service. With an air ambulance, the patient is flown on a small jet outfitted with some of the equipment you'd find on a ground ambulance, with medical personnel onboard. The expense is enormous. Companies usually charge a base fee, a separate fee for medical personnel, and then mileage. A trip from Florida to Boston will cost at least $10,000; from Africa, at least $50,000.